The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1887-03-24
tsENERAL NEW noTEs.
Hems OF Interest Gathered nom yarIon,

Quarters.
] Beechers life is being written la haste by
st least dozen ambitious scribes
A fire at Lumbcrton, N. c., on Monday,
destroyed II buildings. Loss 800, 900.
The Prince and Princess Colonna are to
visit Papa Mackay in May or June.
The French Chamber Of Deputies, by
vote OF 31S to 24S, has passed the bill sur
taxing cereals
Moonlighters have wrecked the houses |
OF ten tenants on Gen. Stewards estate in |
West Glare, Ireland.
DR. Il. G. Ford, Of Louisiana, having
been pardoned by the Governor, has been
released from the parish prison..
Mrs. l.. G. Duer and her child were
Killed by locomotive while walking on
the track at Gainesville, Fla.
MIR. Parncll reports his health much i'm
proved and his appearance is said to con
firm his report
Lieutenant, now General, Greedy, of the
Signal Service, is lecturing in Washington
on Arctic subjects.
MIR. Blaine is to go to Europe i'm MAY. if
hc does not change his mind before that
time.
Miss Cleveland dincd with Mrs Bcecher
at the latter's home in Brooklyn on Sunday
afternoon.
Cardinal Manning has heartily endorsed
the policy advocated by Cardinal Gibbons
towards the Knights Of Labor.
The official arrangements for the Worlds
plcte.
The total of persons killed in the rail
road wreck is now put at "a, and the
| wounded at about $50.
VIM. r. Travers continues to grow
weaker and now sees nobody but his init
mate friends.
General Sheridan is to build u summer
home near New Bedford, on the Massachu.
| ScttS coast.
Senator and Mrs Edmunds will not leave
Washington for Vermont until the middle
of May. ''>'>''N
Senators Sherman and Ingalls,. with the
other members of their washington party,
have arrived at Havana.
Inc New York COopers have rcnounccd
All allegiance to the knights of Labor, and
nave gone back to work at reduced wages.
The melting of snow and ice is causing
overllows of the Missouri river and its
| tributaries
EX-Alderman ONeill is said to pass his
leisure time in Sing-Sing in the earnest
study OF st. Augustines confessions
The health of ex-Prcsidcnt James D.
Fish continues to grow worse and il is
thought that he will be pardoncd to avoid
his death in prison.
The British aristocracy is brinr dill
gently "wOrkGd' in the effort to insure q
lNrge attendance at Mrs. James Brown Pot
Ter s debut, which occurs on lhe 2Gth inst.
LiHzic MCGOWAN, aged Is years, of Chi,
copcc, Miss, while temporarily insane,
took sufficient Paris green to kill 50 persons
and died in 10 minutes.
AN engine and tender went through thc
railroad trcstle near Marietta, Ohio. killing
the engineer and the fireman and seriously
Scaldlng the conductor and brakeman.
| The report that there was a GOODNESS be.
| tween the President and Secretary End:
| Gott is denied by the press and dccounccd
| 10y Mr Cleveland.
| Fannie Rasch, q New Orleans widow
| who followed the occupation of rap.piclcr
was found dead IN bed with $I,I5O con,
ceal"d aboNt her shabbily furnished room.
lnc|whitc and colorcd women in Kansas
HFG being organized to vote at the coming
spring election which promises to be an cX,
| citing one.
Beyond few scrimmagcs in London
derry and elsewhere, st. PatriCks day was
| observed in an orderly manner Throughout
Ireland.
The New York Engtnc0rfng -Ne,cS saws
thc disaster on Forest Hill Bridge, nca,
HoSton, was due to its defective construc
| ton
| The Treasury Department has received
an opinion from the first Controller, to tn,
elect that Congress failed to appropriat.
money FOR the agricultural stations
The Illinois Legislature has voted dowr
resolution to submit prohibitory amend
| mcnt to the people at the next general cleo
t'on The vote was G5 yeas, 98 nays
An Ottawa, Ont. dispatch SAYS that an
other fast sailing schooner has been addeC
TO the fisheries protection cruiser fleet fol
use during tho coming summer.
| The French Chamber of Deputies, by (.
| vote OF 1923 against 239, approved the bill
| imposing duty of five francs per 10(
| kilos on wheat imports
| The case against the parties charged witt
the shooting Of Culbrcath, in Edgefield
has been postponed, on the ground of alb
scncc of defendants witnesses.
The Governor Of Tennessee has signc(
thc bill submitting to the people prohibi
| u0n amendment to the Constitution. The
election will be held next September.
The silk mills in Union Mills, N. Y.
have been obliged to shut down, owing tC
the strike in the mills at Paterson. Ovcl
zoo men and women are out of employ
mCnt.
AT a meeting Of Congregational minis
tcrs In Chicago statement highly culo&is
tic of the Rev. III. w. Bcecher was adopted
ana ordered placed on the records
The Duchess of Otranto committed sui
eide at Paris Tuesday by blowing her brain.
out with revolver. She was oVcrwrough
with grief at the recent death of her nus
| band.
Charles Reilly, the famous short stop Of
| the Princeton Browns for several season.
past has just been secured by the Savan
| MI Southern League Club.
When last heard from, Secretary BayarC
HAD met the lady only twice to whom he
Is said to be engaged, both of those times
having been in public places.
The British war Office authorities have
made arrangements for transportation from
Canada to London during the coming sea.
son of 5000 horses for artillery trains.